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Associate Director, Communications, Center for Sustainable Business

🇺🇸 Hybrid - New York, NY 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $75K - $95K 💻 Communications 🗓️ March 12th, 2026
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New York University is hiring an Associate Director, Communications for its Center for Sustainable Business. The role involves leading the development and execution of communications, content, and public events to promote sustainable business thought leadership and programming, as well as managing digital communications and evaluating outreach effectiveness.

Highlights
  • Lead communications and content creation aligned with sustainable business research and programming.
  • Develop and execute strategy for public events, including an annual conference and workshops targeting corporate and investor audiences.
  • Manage production of internal and external materials and digital communications.
  • Track, evaluate, and improve communication outreach using performance metrics.
  • Required software or skills include storytelling, content creation across channels, social media, and strategic marketing communications.
  • Must have a bachelor's degree and at least five years of relevant experience in communications, public relations, marketing, events, or journalism.
  • Master’s degree and seven years of experience preferred, ideally in related fields such as communications, environmental studies, or business.
  • The annual salary range is $75,000 to $95,000, based on experience and qualifications.
  • The position is a 2-year fixed-term appointment with an immediate start date.
  • Serves the Center for Sustainable Business within NYU Stern School of Business, engaging audiences inside and beyond the university community.

Associate Director, Communications, Center for Sustainable Business Full Description

Position Summary:

NYU’s Stern School of Business has an exciting opportunity available for an Associate Director, Communications at our Center for Sustainable Business (CSB) as it evolves its strategy and strengthens its role as a trusted navigator through rapidly changing times. The Center for Sustainable Business’s Associate Director of Communications bridges the gap between leading-edge research, experiential education, and practical impact. The Center aims to unleash the transformative potential of business to solve societal challenges at speed and scale. The Associate Director will develop and lead the execution of communications, content, and public events for CSB. The selected candidate will promote CSB thought leadership and programming on sustainable business to target audiences within and beyond the Stern community through content creation and strategic communications and marketing. They will develop and lead the execution of strategy for public events aligned with CSB’s strategic research and thought leadership activities, including an annual conference for a large corporate and investor audience, panel discussions, and workshops. The Associate Director will also oversee the production of internal and external materials and ensure that savvy digital communications efforts provide key audiences with up-to-date and accessible information about CSB programs, tools, and research. In addition, they will develop, track, evaluate, and report on metrics of success and adapt strategies to grow and improve outreach results over time.

 

This is a 2 year fixed-term position, with a start date ASAP.

Qualifications:

The selected candidate must have a bachelor's degree and at least five years of relevant experience in communications, content creation, social media, public relations, marketing, events, or journalism. Exceptional storytelling ability across formats and channels, and an understanding of how to adapt messages and approaches for different platforms and audiences, are required. Proven ability to create content that performs—you've built audiences, driven engagement, and can point to content that actually changed behavior or sparked conversation—is also required. A Master's degree in a related field such as communications, public relations, marketing, journalism, business, public administration, sustainability, or environmental studies is preferred. Seven years of experience in communications, public relations, marketing, events, or journalism is preferred.

Additional Information:

In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is USD $75,000.00 to USD $95,000.00. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as, market and organizational considerations when extending an offer. This pay range represents base pay only and excludes any additional items such as incentives, bonuses, clinical compensation, or other items.

 

New York University Stern School of Business, located in the heart of Greenwich Village and deeply connected with the City for which it is named, is one of the nation’s premier management education schools and research centers. NYU Stern offers a broad portfolio of transformational programs at the graduate, undergraduate and executive levels, all of them enriched by the dynamism and deep resources of one of the world’s business capitals. NYU Stern is a welcoming community that inspires its members to embrace and lead change in a rapidly transforming world.

For more information about working at NYU please visit our website at: http://www.nyu.edu/about/careers-at-nyu.html.

NYU aims to be among the greenest urban campuses in the country and carbon neutral by 2040. Learn more at nyu.edu/nyugreen.

NYU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of its recruitment and hiring process without regard to age, alienage, caregiver status, childbirth, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, domestic violence victim status, ethnicity, familial status, gender and/or gender identity or expression, marital status, military status, national origin, parental status, partnership status, predisposing genetic characteristics, pregnancy, race, religion, reproductive health decision making, sex, sexual orientation, unemployment status, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. All interested persons are encouraged to apply at all levels.

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